| Description |
xxiii, 692 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 582-646) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A prospect of the sea : the Roman circuit -- The god of the household and his music -- Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere -- Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing -- Lectors in Rome and elsewhere -- The psalmody of urban house-ascetics -- Deacons as readers and psalmists in the fourth and fifth centuries -- A new political order, and two singers from sixth-century Gaul -- Schooling to silence the layman's voice -- Ministers of music in the sixth-century kingdoms : deacons and cantors -- Schooling singers in the cathedrals : 450-650 -- Schooling singers in Rome -- Steering in distant waters by the Roman lighthouse -- Pippin and his singers, I : thrones, dominations, powers -- Pippin and his singers, II : music for a Frankish-Roman imperium -- Singers of the ninth century : Metz and the palatine chapel -- Singers, sounds and symbols -- Composing for singers 900-1100, I : scholars in the service of saints -- Composing for singers 900-1100, II : courtliness and other modes -- "In our time, of all men, singers are the most foolish" : Guido of Arezzo and the invention of the stave -- Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of Sint Truiden and Guido's invention -- Singers in the making of Europe. |
| Subject |
Church music -- To 500.
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Church music. |
| Chronological Term |
To 500 |
| Subject |
Church music -- 500-1400.
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| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| ISBN |
9780300112573 cl alkaline paper |
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0300112572 cl alkaline paper |
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